The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Vintage International)

3.1

2439

School & Library Binding

209 pages

B004089I10

Maxine Hong Kingston

English

17 November 2016

Maxine Hong Kingston

ᆈ Free School & Library Binding [ The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Vintage International) ] ᇳ Ebook Author Maxine Hong Kingston ቄ The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California Maxine Hong Kingston China Men distills the dire lessons of her mother s mesmerizing talk story tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward The author s America is a landscape of confounding white ghosts the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost with equally rigid, but very different rules Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain.Intense, fierce and disturbing .A strange, sometimes savagely terrifying and, in the literal sense, wonderful story The Washington PostRemarkable As an account of growing up female and Chinese American it is anti nostalgic As a dreamof the female avengerit is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword The New York Times Superb We are in the presence of a splendid raconteur, who shares with us the myths and stories that emerge from the lode of a cultures deepest realities Chicago TribuneTriumphant astonishingly accomplished Time The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Vintage International)